Friday, January 23, 2009

Don't you just love it when an experiment goes right? These cupcakes topped with meringue were a total experiment & I'm thrilled with the result.We always have frozen fruit on hand for our morning smoothies but they can also be a great for baking. It's been so cold here lately I decided to use some of our frozen pineapple to bring a little tropics into our life, well into our kitchen anyway. I wanted to do a meringue topping so it would be almost like a pineapple meringue pie. I started thinking why couldn't I just bake the meringue on the cupcake like you would a pie. What do you know it worked!The cupcake itself was really good with a wonderful pineapple flavor. The meringue topping was super easy to make & you put it on the cupcakes part way through baking. I really like baking cupcakes but making & applying frosting is not my favorite part so, having a cupcake that comes out of the oven frosted & ready to eat, sign me up. I probably could have done a neater job putting the meringue on but I rushed worrying it would melt on the hot cupcake. It actually didn't so next time I'll spend more time on the presentation. Hmmm....a key lime meringue cupcake....